Yankees hope A-Rod stays hot in finale vs. Seattle
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07/02/2009 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Alex Rodriguez is starting to heat up. Not coincidentally, so are the New York Yankees.
The Bronx Bombers will be shooting for an eighth consecutive victory and a series sweep of Rodriguez's original team, the Seattle Mariners, when the two clubs wrap up a three-game set tonight at Yankee Stadium.
New York kept up its winning ways with Wednesday's 4-2 triumph over the Mariners, in which Rodriguez snapped a 2-2 deadlock with a two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth inning.
The homer was the fourth in six contests for the superstar third baseman, and he's batting .435 (10-for-23) with 13 RBI during a seven-game hitting streak. The surge has raised Rodriguez's season average from .207 to .239.
"Even when I struggled I never felt like it was an at-bat where I wasn't going to get the job done," said Rodriguez, who sat out the season's first five weeks while recovering from hip surgery. "That hasn't changed. My question has always been 'is my body going to bounce back.' It was never about my game. My body feels good. The results are better."
Johnny Damon and Melky Cabrera also homered to help the Yankees to their 10th straight home win over the Mariners, while Andy Pettitte delivered seven sharp innings on the mound.
Pettitte (8-3) held Seattle to two runs on six hits while walking just one batter to notch his team-best eighth victory of the year.
The red-hot Yankees now own a 2 1/2-game lead on Tampa Bay for the top spot in the American League Wild Card standings and trail first-place Boston by the same margin in the AL East race.
Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 621st career home run for Seattle, which came into this series having won four times in a five-game span. Starting pitcher Jarrod Washburn (4-6) was saddled with the loss after allowing four runs on eight hits over seven innings of work.
CC Sabathia will attempt to match Pettitte's season win total when he takes the mound for New York tonight. The offseason acquisition rebounded strongly from an injury-shortened start at Florida on June 21 this past Friday, when he limited the rival Mets to just one run and three hits while racking up eight strikeouts over seven innings in the Yankees' 9-1 Subway Series win.
Sabathia had left the Florida game after just 1 1/3 innings after experiencing tightness in his left biceps, but threw 99 pitches against the Mets without any problems.
The 2007 AL Cy Young Award winner is 2-1 with a respectable 3.99 earned run average in seven starts at hitter-friendly Yankee Stadium this year, and owns a 4-3 mark with a 2.95 ERA in 11 lifetime starts against the Mariners.
Seattle will hand the ball to Jason Vargas in the finale and hope the left- hander can work out his recent troubles. After going 2-0 with an excellent 1.93 ERA over his first seven appearances in a Mariners uniform, Vargas is 1-3 in his last four starts and has surrendered 17 runs (16 earned) in 22 innings during that span.
Each of Vargas' last three losses have come on the road, the most recent being an 8-2 setback to the Dodgers on Friday. The 26-year-old was tagged for five runs on nine hits -- including a pair of homers -- before exiting after just 4 2/3 innings.
This will be Vargas' first-ever appearance against the Yankees.
New York has dominated this series as of late, having won 11 of its past 13 encounters with the Mariners. The Yankees are 10-0 as the host during that stretch.
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